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...Gore estimates he spends about three-quarters of his workweek on Current TV and most of the rest of his time on Generation Investment, where he helps the firm's stock pickers identify long-term issues that could drive the markets. He also serves as an adviser to Google--he "has helped us understand the geopolitical role we play, the importance of building community," says CEO Eric Schmidt--and sits on the board of Apple Computer. At Apple's last quarterly meeting, the former Vice President led a discussion on stock-option "burn rates" and other esoterica of employee compensation...
...clear to see in Gore's business ventures some of the same instincts that, for better or worse, shaped his political career: an ability to discern the future, an appetite for complexity, a faith in the egalitarian forces of technology--and an impulse to take a big risk. Those traits are what had Gore worried about global warming decades ahead of almost everyone else and running for President before his 40th birthday. Under Bill Clinton, he pushed to reinvent the massive federal bureaucracy and wire every classroom to the Internet. In his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign, Gore once even considered...
...will they work? "We want to be the 'television home page' for the Internet generation," Gore has said. But there's no small amount of skepticism that his cable channel will be able to break out of the pack. If Gore is on to something with this idea of turning consumers into media programmers, so are a lot of other people. Korea's Ohmynews boasts a stable of 38,000 "citizen journalists." Pictures and video from bystanders' cell phones played a starring role in the mainstream media coverage of the terrorist bombings in London. There are already 70 million blogs...
...Current's promises to offer consumers of television more control in its creation--"to give young people a voice," Gore declared at the network's prelaunch in April--some young content creators are already questioning its openness. A lively blog on which aspiring video makers swapped ideas about the network's mission, recruitment process, video postings and politics cropped up on Current's website in its early days. But after would-be correspondents started criticizing management's policies and unresponsiveness, the blog was shut down...
...Gore insists that Current TV has, if anything, become more open. "Our vision was then, and is now, to go from the old studio-based production model that is still used by everybody else out there, where a small group of people in a television studio makes the programming that everybody else watches, and go to a democratized medium where everybody has a chance to learn how to make television," he says. The network will even teach people how, with free online media training by veteran journalists, educators from journalism and film schools, and celebrities...